The evangelical charity Home for Good, reported on in en June 2013 was launched on September 1 as an independent charity to rescue Britain’s vulnerable children.
With one child every 20 minutes being taken into care the UK, and another 6,000 children already waiting for adoption, there appears to be a crisis in child care in the UK. The Evangelical Alliance is persuaded that if at least one family per evangelical church open their homes, this crisis would be resolved.
General director of the Alliance, Steve Clifford, says that Home for Good goes with the prayers and blessings of the entire Alliance family: ‘In the same way that Tearfund was incubated and birthed out of the Evangelical Alliance nearly 50 years ago, so it is a delight and privilege to now be releasing Home for Good as an independent charity.
Extraordinary impact
‘The impact of the Home for Good campaign over the last two years has been extraordinary. The combined efforts of Care for the Family, Churches’ Child Protection Advisory Service (CCPAS) and the Evangelical Alliance, led by Krish Kandiah, a foster carer and adoptive parent himself, have seen the issue of adoption and fostering explode into the consciousness of evangelical Christians all over the country. With an enormous challenge before us, with 6,000 children still awaiting adoption and more than 9,000 in need of fostering, the Church in the UK is already responding. We have made contact with hundreds who are already serving God in responding to this need. So we release Home for Good with our blessing and prayers and will continue to cheer on this inspired initiative’.
A government survey showed that religious people were reluctant to step forward in the belief that the authorities would not allow them to foster or adopt, but that myth has now been dispelled. Since its launch a year and a half ago, Home for Good has reached more than 250,000 Christians with the message about fostering and adoption. 200 churches took part in the first-ever national Adoption Sunday. In Southampton alone 70 church-goers applied to be foster carers, while across the country hundreds have attended seminars and events to find out more about fostering and adoption.
On November 2, Home for Good will host its second annual National Adoption Sunday in churches in the UK.
